179 Quotes by Tanith Lee

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

No one is ever ordinary.

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one’s existence.

The graves are, he suggests, only stone bookmarks left in pages of earth.

A rose by any other name Would get the blame For being what it is – The colour of a kiss, The shadow of a flame. A rose may earn another name, So call it love; So call it love I will, And love is like the sea, Which changes constantly, And yet is still The same.

I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it’s unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.